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Byron M Harlan

Byron was born in Centertown Missouri the son of Wilbur Gilbert and Florence Magnolia Morris Harlan..On Cot 7 1932 he married Lillian "Peggy"Britton..He was employed with the Missouri Pacific Railroad for 47 years as an agent/telegrapher..He was a member of Telegrapher Communications Union No 284 and the First Baptist Church of California.Byron went to work at Lohman when he was 16 and hired regular at 18 years of age with the Missouri Pacific Railroad working the depot in Marion Missouri.He worked depots up and down the Missouri River from St. Louis to Kansas City.. He filled in at stations in Texas during the oil boom and in Kansas during the wheat rush and in west Memphis Ark at the time of a big flood..He was a telegrapher in Boonville for four years before becoming agent at Tipton and moved his family to california..When the local agent H C Harkins died in 1945 Mr. Harlan took over the Job..